Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 179 397 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.97% 9.17% 11.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.70% 28.83% 26.58%
Number of salaries quoted 100 180 224
10th Percentile £40,015 £41,732 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,188 £47,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,144 £55,100
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +20.04% -8.17%
75th Percentile £72,813 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,750 £100,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 583 1,377 1,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.20% 31.82% 42.29%
Number of salaries quoted 411 780 986
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.15% -5.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,125 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £59,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -40 83 £47,520 -32.11% 92
Oxfordshire +6 51 £65,000 +14.03% 98
Buckinghamshire -5 45 £60,000 +6.67% 42
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.68%) CMS
2 2 (1.12%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) Appian
3 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (7.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.91%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (33.52%) AWS
2 46 (25.70%) Azure
3 34 (18.99%) Power Platform
4 30 (16.76%) GCP
5 26 (14.53%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (13.97%) Serverless
7 20 (11.17%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (10.61%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (8.38%) GitHub
10 9 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.91%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.91%) Google Analytics
11 7 (3.91%) Google Docs
12 5 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.79%) SaaS
13 4 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (2.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (2.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (1.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.70%) DNS
2 10 (5.59%) Firewall
3 4 (2.23%) Broadband
3 4 (2.23%) DHCP
3 4 (2.23%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.23%) Wireless
4 3 (1.68%) HTTP
4 3 (1.68%) InfiniBand
4 3 (1.68%) Internet
5 2 (1.12%) 5G
5 2 (1.12%) FTP
5 2 (1.12%) LAN
5 2 (1.12%) SMTP
5 2 (1.12%) SSH
5 2 (1.12%) VPN
5 2 (1.12%) WAN
6 1 (0.56%) MIMO
6 1 (0.56%) Network Security
6 1 (0.56%) NGN
6 1 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.88%) Power BI
2 27 (15.08%) Relational Database
3 25 (13.97%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (13.41%) BigQuery
5 19 (10.61%) RDBMS
6 17 (9.50%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (7.82%) Tableau
8 8 (4.47%) Metadata
9 6 (3.35%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.79%) NoSQL
10 5 (2.79%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.68%) MySQL
13 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.12%) Data Hub
13 2 (1.12%) Looker
13 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (17.32%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.61%) JMeter
2 19 (10.61%) JUnit
2 19 (10.61%) Mockito
3 17 (9.50%) Git
4 9 (5.03%) JIRA
5 6 (3.35%) Selenium
6 5 (2.79%) GitLab
7 4 (2.23%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.23%) MLflow
7 4 (2.23%) Postman
7 4 (2.23%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.23%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.68%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.68%) Metasploit
9 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.12%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.56%) Appium
10 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 58 (32.40%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.64%) Marketing
3 26 (14.53%) Law
4 25 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (12.29%) Public Sector
6 18 (10.06%) Finance
7 13 (7.26%) Manufacturing
8 10 (5.59%) Retail
9 8 (4.47%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.79%) Legal
11 4 (2.23%) Retail Finance
12 3 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.68%) Tech for Good
13 2 (1.12%) Banking
13 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.12%) Multimedia
13 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.56%) Automotive
14 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (17.88%) Developer
2 25 (13.97%) Architect
3 23 (12.85%) Senior
4 21 (11.73%) Analyst
4 21 (11.73%) Java Developer
5 20 (11.17%) Cloud Architect
5 20 (11.17%) GCP Architect
5 20 (11.17%) Platform Architect
6 18 (10.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (9.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 15 (8.38%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 15 (8.38%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.03%) Lead
10 8 (4.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 7 (3.91%) Author
11 7 (3.91%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Technical Author
12 6 (3.35%) Data Analyst
12 6 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.76%) REST
2 22 (12.29%) HTML
3 21 (11.73%) JSON
3 21 (11.73%) Spring
3 21 (11.73%) Spring Boot
4 20 (11.17%) Web Services
4 20 (11.17%) XML
5 19 (10.61%) ActiveMQ
5 19 (10.61%) Apache Camel
5 19 (10.61%) Hibernate
5 19 (10.61%) jQuery
5 19 (10.61%) WireMock
6 10 (5.59%) .NET
6 10 (5.59%) SOAP
7 8 (4.47%) React
8 5 (2.79%) Middleware
9 4 (2.23%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (2.23%) pytest
9 4 (2.23%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (2.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.97%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.17%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.91%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.35%) Life Science
5 5 (2.79%) IoT
5 5 (2.79%) SCADA
5 5 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.23%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (2.23%) Learning Management System
6 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 3 (1.68%) Animation
7 3 (1.68%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.12%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.12%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) Replication
8 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.56%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.20%) Linux
2 11 (6.15%) Windows
3 10 (5.59%) Unix
4 3 (1.68%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.12%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (31.28%) Agile
2 51 (28.49%) Analytics
3 43 (24.02%) CI/CD
4 39 (21.79%) Business Intelligence
5 36 (20.11%) Roadmaps
6 34 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (17.32%) Mentoring
8 30 (16.76%) Data Science
8 30 (16.76%) Strategic Roadmap
9 28 (15.64%) DevOps
9 28 (15.64%) SDLC
10 27 (15.08%) Cloud Security
11 25 (13.97%) TDD
12 24 (13.41%) Architectural Design
12 24 (13.41%) Full-Stack Development
13 23 (12.85%) Microservices
13 23 (12.85%) Software Engineering
14 22 (12.29%) Computer Science
14 22 (12.29%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 65 (36.31%) SQL
2 58 (32.40%) Java
3 40 (22.35%) JavaScript
4 26 (14.53%) Go
5 22 (12.29%) Shell Script
6 20 (11.17%) Bash
7 16 (8.94%) PowerShell
8 14 (7.82%) C#
9 13 (7.26%) C++
10 8 (4.47%) T-SQL
11 7 (3.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (3.35%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (3.35%) Perl
13 5 (2.79%) C
13 5 (2.79%) PHP
14 4 (2.23%) Apex Code
14 4 (2.23%) Fortran
14 4 (2.23%) Ruby
14 4 (2.23%) TypeScript
15 3 (1.68%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (21.79%) Degree
2 29 (16.20%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.26%) Master's Degree
4 11 (6.15%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.03%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.35%) PhD
8 4 (2.23%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.23%) MCSE
8 4 (2.23%) RHCE
9 3 (1.68%) LPIC
9 3 (1.68%) OSCP
10 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.56%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.56%) GPEN
11 1 (0.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.47%) QA
3 5 (2.79%) GDPR
4 3 (1.68%) ECSS
4 3 (1.68%) NIST
5 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.56%) GxP
6 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 37 (20.67%) Docker
2 4 (2.23%) vCloud
3 3 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.68%) GPFS
3 3 (1.68%) Lustre
3 3 (1.68%) NFS
4 2 (1.12%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (31.84%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.17%) Kibana
3 14 (7.82%) Ansible
4 12 (6.70%) Terraform
5 4 (2.23%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (2.23%) Kubeflow
5 4 (2.23%) Rundeck
6 3 (1.68%) Nmap
7 2 (1.12%) Argo
7 2 (1.12%) Grafana
7 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.56%) Control-M
8 1 (0.56%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.56%) SCCM
8 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (17.32%) Google
2 20 (11.17%) Dynatrace
3 19 (10.61%) Splunk
4 8 (4.47%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.35%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.35%) VMware
6 5 (2.79%) Allen-Bradley
6 5 (2.79%) Siemens
7 4 (2.23%) Databricks
7 4 (2.23%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.68%) Talend
9 2 (1.12%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.12%) Aruba
9 2 (1.12%) Cisco
9 2 (1.12%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.12%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.12%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.12%) Zoho